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'Business
continuity briefs' provides a summary of new product and services
press releases and other useful resources published in the last
24 hours.
Double-Take Software has announced the acquisition of emBoot Inc., experts in network booting technology. The technology acquired with emBootallows organizations to easily assign and re-assign computing workloads to any available Windows or Linux physical servers or desktops or any virtual machine in their environment. IT organizations can now move those workloads around in a matter of minutes, whether it is because a disaster has occurred, a data center is moving, the company has decided to virtualize its infrastructure or an application needs more capacity. www.DoubleTake.com
Advanced Vault has announced that the company's data backup and recovery tools now provide support for 64-bit editions of Windows, Linux, Mac and FreeBSD operating systems. Read press release
Tsunami detection in the Indian Ocean will be boosted after the signing of an agreement between government agencies in Australia and Indonesia. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Indonesia's Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology (Bagdan Pengkajian dan Penerapan Teknologi or BPPT) have signed a formal agreement to begin a cooperative technical partnership in tsunami observation monitoring and assessment. More details (PDF)
IBM has released results from its X-Force 2008 Midyear Trend Statistics report that indicates that cyber-criminals are adopting new automation techniques and strategies that allow them to exploit vulnerabilities much faster than ever before. The new tools are being implemented on the Internet by organized criminal elements, and at the same time public exploit code published by researchers are putting more systems, databases and ultimately, people at risk of compromise.
According to the X-Force report, 94 percent of all browser-related online exploits occurred within 24 hours of official vulnerability disclosure. These attacks, known-as ‘zero-day’ exploits, are on the Internet before people even know they have a vulnerability that needs to be patched in their systems.
Read the report
FEMA daily SITREP
World weather impacts
•Date: 31st July 2008• Region: Various |
